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TIL The real sword in the stone exists and is in Italy.
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TIL: Japanese women are expected to give chocolates to male colleagues on Valentine’s Day as part of a tradition called giri choco – literally, obligation chocolates. Men are supposed to reciprocate on 14 March on White Day – an event dreamed up by chocolate makers in the early 80s to boost sales.
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TIL that Oriental Hornets are able to harvest the sun’s light and convert it to energy with their yellow stripes in their head and abdomen.
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TIL that the Manchurian plague outbreak of 1910-11 was incredibly deadly, with a near-100% fatality rate, and marked the first time that PPE including cloth masks were used on a significant scale to contain an epidemic
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TIL Chinese companies have been caught making tofu out of sewage and marinating meat in goat urine.
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TIL that there's a difference between a panic attack and an anxiety attack.